By Rhoda Olorunfemi Winners have emerged for the 2016 edition of the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) awards held on December 3 in Lagos. Majority of the winners were from The PUNCH and The NATION newspapers. Winners from The PUNCH included, Editor of The Punch, Mr. Martin Ayankola, won Editor of the Year, […]
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Betty Abbah, journalist and gender advocate during the December 2016 MediaQ&A spoke on the difference participating in the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships (AFPF) has made in your career ? The Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship (about six months hands-on training in the USA a decade ago) was THE turning point in my career as a young
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi Journalists have been advised to emulate the spirit of hard work and passion for their career as exhibited by the late photojournalist, Adeyinka Adeparusi who died in Abuja. This call was made by some of the dignitaries present at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSOIJ), located at the Nigerian Institute
THISDAY’s Raheem Akingbolu has won the Tunmise Adekunle Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting Category of Social Enterprise Reporting Award (SERA)-CSR AFRICA of year 2016. Gbenga Salau of the The Guardian was the first runner-up while Adedeji Ademigbuji of The Nation, was second runner-up in the Category. A total of twenty-six awards were won by corporate
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Energy Editor of the New Telegraph newspaper, Adeola Yusuf has bagged the Africa Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) Bursary in South Africa. New Telegraph reports that, the story, published in New Telegraph newspaper on Saturday, June 24, 2016 titled: “Mega Crude Theft: How $50bn stolen crude from Nigeria found its way to refineries in Europe, US”,
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What’s the big deal about blogger and media entrepreneur, Linda Ikeji? Lekan Otufodunrin writes on the missed opportunities that Linda and others have taken advantage of. I had my first email account, lotufodunrin@hotmail.com in 1998, a year after Linda Ikeji, Nigeria’s number 1 blogger, finished secondary school at 16 going to 17. By 2006 when
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What’s the big deal about blogger and media entrepreneur, Linda Ikeji? Lekan Otufodunrin writes on the missed opportunities that Linda and others have taken advantage of. I had my first email account, lotufodunrin@hotmail.com in 1998, a year after Linda Ikeji, Nigeria’s number 1 blogger, finished secondary school at 16 going to 17. By 2006 when
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Ebenezar Wikina, a young Nigerian digital journalist has been named the Journalist of the month by the International Journalists’s Network. Since 2013 when the Port-Harcourt based writer started blogging without having a laptop of his own, Wikina has started his own interview column, “The Stroll,” in which he has interviewed more than 120 global leaders
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Ebenezar Wikina, a young Nigerian digital journalist has been named the Journalist of the month by the International Journalists’s Network. Since 2013 when the Port-Harcourt based writer started blogging without having a laptop of his own, Wikina has started his own interview column, “The Stroll,” in which he has interviewed more than 120 global leaders
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Publisher and CEO of The Interview Magazine, Azubuike Ishiekwene has shared five lessons he has learnt in the first year of publishing his monthly magazine. In his weekly column of September 9, 2016 published in Leadership Newspaper entitled Journey to a start-up, Azubuike, former Executive Director, Publications of The Punch said “There’s nothing in the
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